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Letter from the editor

When attempting to describe the theme of the magazine to writers or interested friends, I found myself asking question after question: How do people remember their childhood home? How do people define home? And by that same logic, how does home define them? Home is something personal yet simultaneously universal. Nevertheless, its essence remains difficult […]

The way we live now

Laura Boles, 3rd year student: Tri-Delta Sorority Brian, Dormer, Garrett, Kevin: Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Students Diana Danaila, Writer: Dovercourt-Wallace-Emerson Patrick McGuire, Editor of The Wa: Queen Street West Kate Morris, 3rd year student, Don: Annesley Hall Residence Mark Beshai, Producer and DJ: Queen West

Jon Stewart’s Moment of Zen

If you haven’t seen the sci-fi horror flick The Faculty, you’re not alone. Not much is memorable about the 1998 film save for its colourful cast of characters, including Usher, Salma Hayek, Elijah Wood — oh, and Daily Show host Jon Stewart. Before he took centre stage in Washington D.C. for the Rally to Restore […]

The Hunt for Green October

Down an alleyway and then into another, there existed a bar that was the stuff of legend. Yes, it had mice. Yes, someone might puke in a corner and the staff would blithely ignore it. And yes, the ashtrays in the grotto would build up into cancerous little pyramids without anyone emptying them. A thousand […]

The Haunting of One Spadina Crescent

9:08 p.m.: The evening begins with me frightening Ileea, my friend and my companion for this evening of ghoulish searching at U of T, when I tap on one of the glass windows of the Gargoyle’s basement office. She cries out and jumps from her chair at the sound and then lets out a palpable […]

Found Footage

A man in a white-collared shirt and tie rises from the driver’s seat of a Winnebago. He is tall and imposing, with a thick moustache and deep newsreader’s voice. He walks through the Winnebago’s living room set, faces the camera, and addresses the audience. “The Winnebago engineering departments have developed a multifunctional bathroom, privacy I […]

In retrospect

he Start The University of Toronto was a very different place in 1880. Confederation was only 13 years old, and most of its relatively small population came from fairly privileged backgrounds. Nevertheless, an expanding undergraduate population and an increasingly secular attitude in public education began to give rise to an independent student life previously non-existent. […]

The ivory tower: U of T’s secret spaces

Peace of mind through science

In the claustrophobia-inducing basement of University College, an unassuming office smaller than most tutorial rooms houses the headquarters of Science for Peace, one of the most vocal academic organizations in Canada. Containing only a few chairs, a desk, and several filing cabinets, it’s surprising that this is the headquarters for an organization that is a […]

Is this a neuro revolution?

They say a revolution is brewing. We won’t see it in the streets and people won’t be talking about it on the daily news. Instead, it will happen in dimly lit laboratories, where human subjects lie with their heads in white tubular machines. In fact, it’s happening right now — as figures in lab coats […]

Genius sui generis

The University of Toronto’s Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences occupies a four-storey, mostly redbrick and limestone structure at 222 College Street. Flanked on its west side by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and on its east by the Koffler Centre, the building can appear rather unimposing, especially by U of T’s […]

Letters from the editors

NEWS The News section provides fair and balanced coverage for undergraduate students at U of T. Scandal, marginalization, and wasteful spending — we keep students in the know. Read our section and you’ll stay on top of the complicated bureaucracy, new policies from university administration, and everything at U of T that’s fit for print. […]